St. Lucy's Home For Girls Character Analysis

In the short story St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, there are wolf girls that are taken to a Covent to become more humane. The story is told by the eyes of Claudette. There are five stages to becoming more humanized. She explains every single one in her own words and explains events that take place during these stages. Claudette has successfully become more human because she has shown signs of more humanity in all the stages except the first.

As nature becomes more unpredictable, Pfeffer indicates that the family is confused and unsure of what is to come, but aware that life is about to get extremely difficult. Although the family is just “a little shaken up”, there is no “sens[e] of relief” for Miranda as she displays true concern for her loved ones (27). Her reaction exposes the consideration and worry she feels, rather than the self-absorbed, immature attitude she expressed before. Not only does she worry about her family, but when her friend Megan begins sharing food and skipping meals, Miranda confronts her decisions because she cares for her health. Even though she disagrees with Megan’s conservation, Miranda contributes to the theme of

The symbolism in “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell compares to being separated from everything you love and all that is familiar to you. The wolf itself represents loyalty, strength, independence, and freedom. The nuns offering to teach the girls how to be civilized is an offer of freedom, just as immigrants migrate in hopes of a better life and freedom from oppression. Symbolic of immigrants adopting names that sounded more American to help speed the assimilation, the nuns give new American names to the girls. Repeating the commands during the drill walks and curling their tongues around their new names, is symbolic of the hard work of being in a new culture, with a new language and trying to fit it. Culture

that ominously passive construction; a something so awful that nobody wanted to assume responsibility for” (236). This demonstrates that the nuns have lost hope in Mirabella because she has failed to stay on track and adapt. She’s so lost, that there is no redeeming the young wolf girl. Through Russell’s use of the nuns interaction, it helps develop Mirabella’s character away from the rest of the pack. As the nuns interact with Mirabella, the reader can see how Mirabella is not as developed as the rest of the pack. As the rest of the pack is developing and becoming more human like, Mirabella has yet to let go of her host culture.She still does things like,”run after the bicycles, growling out our old names. HWRAA! GWARR! TRRRRRRR!” (238). Mirabella knows that she is an outcast, but she is trying to be with her sisters even though she has has not

In the short story “St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell epigraph number two is accurate to what happens next in the book.

In A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline Lengle the main character, Meg Murry, turns into an independent person. At the beginning of the novel Meg is down on herself .She doesn’t think that she can do anything right. For example Meg is in her bedroom, during a hurricane, after school. She says, “It’s the weather on top of everything else.

Throughout the story Claudette struggles with trying not to be an outcast. She doesn't want to be sent home like Mirabella was for not adapting, but she didn't want everyone to hate her for being the best like Jeanette. She starts to show how civil she actually is when she has to act surprised when Mirabella was expelled unlike her other sisters. The finally reason I believe her to have became civil was when at the end when she say it was her first human lie meaning she now believes herself to be human. That fact shows that she is capable as seeing herself more than a wolf girl and that she is

In stage 1 claudette was not adapting very well to the human society. In the stage it says, that the initial period is one which everything is new and exciting. Stage 1 is talking about when they first got to the home. Claudette really can’t adapt that fast to something new. At the beginning the girls explored and wondered

Claudette has finally accepted to the human culture, because she is starting to think like a human. In Stage 3, Claudette struggles to become human, because she is showing wolf like characteristics when they hear they will be seeing their

Karren Russell’s story “Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” is a story about a pack of wolves who are takin from their home to and put in whole new place. The pack is takin to a place called St. Lucy’s. While the pack is at St. Lucy’s they start to notice everything is different from what they are used to. After the pack was at St. Lucy’s for a while the nuns start to teach them how to become human like throughout the different stages. The readers understanding of the story changes in the different stages of lycanthropic culture shock because, the pack is trying to adapt to the new culture at St. Lucy’s by, showing their emotions, developing through the stages, and adjusting to the new culture.

In the texts. Louis homes for girls raise by wolves by Karen , wolves girls are taken to a school to learn how to be more human . Some of the girls graduated and some didn’t. In the passage / Jeanette adjust to the human environment. She was smart, a leader, and respectful at becoming a human.

Mirabel has four sisters and they are Patria, Maria Teresa, Minerva, and Dede The Mirabal sisters are Dominican. Patria got married young. According to Julia Alvarez (2010), she describe Minerva as the intelligent sister and Patria as the religious sister. Dede seems to be the sister that has things at home in control. She was the one who received the lady for the interview and was able to tell her a lot about the family. In fact, the father states that Dede is the one in the family to most likely become millionaire. Maria Teresa was the sister that always wanted to be acknowledge in the family because she was eight-year old child. The sister are similar in the aspect that they care about one another and defend each other. For instance,

Mrs.strageswroth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does.Miss.Stragesworth is very joyful. The narrator says,”The sun was shining, the air was fresh and clear after the nights rain, and everything in Miss.Strangesworth town seemed washed and bright.” This was to show how Mrs.Strangesworth’s feelings towards the town.

Lord of the Flies is a novel written by the Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding about a group of schoolboy stuck on a deserted island, attempting to establish a well-organized society but fail. The story lacks a real female character. Hence, most critics pay no attention on this issue. Nevertheless, the issue of femininity is implicitly presented in the story; male characters are rejecting the femininity. For example, in the protagonist Ralph’s memory, he never read one of the books standing on his shelf because that is the book about two girls (Golding 112). Also, when the boys’ hair grow longer due to the long stay on the island, they refuse to tie the hair back since it would be like girls (Golding 172). The novel embodies the confrontation between masculinity and femininity. In light of this, this paper argues that by considering Piggy the representative of femininity, Lord of the Flies illustrates how the exclusive nature of masculinity repudiates femininity, which causes the final disintegration of the society on the island.

No one believed that she can stay in this position for long but Andrea proves everyone wrong when she becomes one of the best assistants that Miranda has ever had. However, this came with a price. Late shifts, a constantly ringing phone, expensive clothes and haughty surroundings changed Andrea and became a threat to her personal life. She had to make tough decisions, choosing between what is right and what is desirable. However, surprisingly for everyone, Andrea kept her individuality and didn't break under this pressure. She